Gilberto Gil says what the Lula government’s priority for Culture should be in 2023

Gilberto Gil says what the Lula government’s priority for Culture should be in 2023


Gil appeared in Sao Paulo this Wednesday, 2, and said that sector assistance has been “severely damaged” in recent years.

Recovering respect for Brazil’s cultural diversity and planning the development of national cultural events under the responsibility of the government are the main urgencies of the third term of office of the elected president. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the cultural sector. This is the opinion of the former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil.

For the musician, who spoke with the Estadio before climbing to Stage of the Sérgio Cardoso Theater this Wednesday, 2, it is necessary to return to a global approach to the area, paying attention to the origins of Brazilian identity. It indicates, for example, the Afro-Brazilian and indigenous matrices.

Attention to culture must be restored, defends Gil. “Because it has been heavily damaged and lost in recent years.”

He says that folklore and the mixture of peoples, characteristic of Brazil, are fundamental elements of the country’s popular creativity and defends a recovery in the prestige of what he calls cultural agriculture. “Symbolic and spiritual agriculture, which has very rich seeds and the possibility of extraordinary harvests”.

as shown on Estadio in September, the president Jair Bolsonaro postponed transfers of nearly R $ 7 billion from Paulo Gustavo and Aldir Blanc 2 laws to 2023 and 2024. One maneuver to release the blocked funds of the secret budget.

governance structure

Gil questions the existence of the Ministry of Culture. In the Bolsonaro government, the MinC was demoted and addressed to Special Secretary of Culture. According to him, the structure may not be fundamental, as long as there are governing bodies engaged in articulating the public policies of the sector.

However, it does indicate it recreation of folders it can be traditionally positive. “The Brazilian cultural system has become accustomed to its relationship with this, shall we say, centralized Brazilian cultural authority,” he says.

It excludes repeating the passage of the Esplanade. And he didn’t risk a name to take on the role in an eventual recreation. “I don’t have any because I would have at least ten,” she says.

More music, less politics

Gil points out that although large, overpopulated and possessing a vast cultural diversity, Brazil still suffers from a lack of access to cultural expressions. “There is a lack of access to all kinds of wealth in Brazil. Access to art is associated with the general needs of the country”

Despite this, he does not mention the Bolsonaro government, which has been at the helm of the administration for four years. Not even when, during the Music in Motion Festival, this Wednesday 2, a chorus against the president was conducted.

The audience then spoke out in favor of the president-elect, and Gil limited himself to a light, humorous comment on the microphone, the only political mention of him on the show. “They shouted ‘Lula Lá’ so much that she ended up walking away,” he joked.

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Source: Terra

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